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Release Notes for Samba 3.0.3pre1
- XXXXXX XX, 2004
+ March 19, 2004
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This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.3 code base and is
Common bugs fixed in this preview release include:
- o <FILL THIS IN>
+ o Crash bugs and change notify issues in Samba's
+ printing code.
+ o Honoring secondary group membership on domain
+ member servers.
+ o TDB scalability issue surrounding the TDB_CLEAR_IF_FIRST
+ flag.
+
+New features introduced in this preview release include:
+
+ o Improved support for i18n character sets.
+ o Support for account lockout policy based on
+ bad password attempts.
+ o Improved support for long password changes (>14
+ characters) and strong password enforcement.
+ o Continued work on support Windows aliases (i.e.
+ nested groups).
+
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commits
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+
o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* Ensure that Kerberos mutex is always properly unlocked.
* Removed Heimdal "in-memory keytab" support.
* Fixup the 'multiple-vuids' bugs in our server code.
* Correct return code from lsa_lookup_sids() on unmapped
- sids (based on work by vlendecke).
+ sids (based on work by vl@samba.org).
* Fix the "too many fcntl locks" scalability problem
raised by tridge.
* Fixup correct (as per W2K3) returns for lookupsids
* Don't set allocation size on directories.
* Return correct error code on fail if file exists and target
is a directory.
- * Added client "hardlink" commant to test doing NT rename with
+ * Added client "hardlink" comment to test doing NT rename with
hard links. Added hardlink_internals() code - UNIX extensions
now use this as well.
* Use a common function to parse all pathnames from the wire for
much closer emulation of Win2k3 error return codes.
- * More fixes for internal multibyte string handling.
+ * Implement check_path_syntax() and rewrite string sub
+ functions for better multibyte support.
+ * Ensure msdfs referrals are multibyte safe.
+ * Allow msdfs symlink syntax to be more forgiving.
+ eg. sym_link -> msdfs://server/share/path/in/share
+ or sym_link -> msdfs:\\server\share\path\in\share.
+ * Cleanup multibyte netbios name support in nmbd ( based on patch
+ by MORIYAMA Masayuki <moriyama@miraclelinux.com>).
+ * Fix check_path_syntax() for multibyte encodings which have
+ no '\' as second byte (based on work by ab@samba.org.
+ * Fix the "dfs self-referrals as anonymous user" problem
+ (based on patch from vl@samba.org).
o Timur Bakeyev <timur@com.bat.ru>
- * BUG 1144: only set --with-fhs when the argumenet is 'yes'
+ * BUG 1144: only set --with-fhs when the argument is 'yes'
o Andrew Bartlet <abartlet@samba.org>
- * Include support for linking with cracklib for enforcing
- strong password changes.
+ * Include support for linking with cracklib for enforcing strong
+ password changes.
* Add support for >14 character password changes from Windows
clients.
* Add 'admin set password' capability to 'net rpc'.
* Use an allocated buffer for count_chars.
* Add sanity checks for changes in the domain SID in an
LDAP DIT.
+ * Implement python unit tests for Samba's multibyte string
+ support.
o Alexander Bokovoy <ab@samba.org>
+ * Fix incorrect size calculation of the directory name
+ in recycle.so.
+ * Fix problems with very long filenames in both smbd and smbclient
+ caused by truncating paths during character conversions.
o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
* BUG 503: RedHat/Fedora packaging fixes regarding logrotate.
* BUG 848: don't create winbind local users/groups that already
exist in the tdb.
- * BUG 1080: fix declaration of SMB_BIG_UINT (broek compile on
+ * BUG 1080: fix declaration of SMB_BIG_UINT (broke compile on
LynxOS/ppc).
+ * BUG 488: fix the 'show client in col 1' button and correctly
+ enumerate active connections.
+ * BUG 1007 (partial): Fix abort in smbd caused by byte ordering
+ problem when storing the updating pid for the lpq cache.
+ * BUG 1007 (partial): Fix print change notify bugs.
+ * BUG 1165, 1126: Fix bug with secondary groups (security = ads)
+ and winbind use default domain = yes. Also ensures that
+ * BUG 1151: Ensure that winbindd users are passed through
+ the username map.
+ * Fix client rpc binds for ASU derived servers (pc netlink,
+ etc...).
+
+
+o Robert Dahlem <Robert.Dahlem@gmx.net>
+ * BUG 1048: Don't return short names when when 'mangled names = no'
o Guenther Deschner <gd@suse.com>
o Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
- * Update moun.cifs to version 1.1.
+ * Update mount.cifs to version 1.1.
* Disable dev (MS_NODEV) on user mounts from cifs vfs.
* Fixes to minor security bug in the mount helper.
* BUG 1055; formatting fixes for 'net share'.
* BUG 692: correct truncation of share names and workgroup
names in smbclient.
+ * BUG 1088: use strchr_m() for query_host (smbclient -L).
o Chris Hertel <crh@samba.org>
o John Klinger <john.klinger@lmco.com>
* Return NSS_SUCCESS once the max number of gids possible
has been found in initgroups() on Solaris.
+ * BUG 1182: Re-enable the -n 'no cache' option for winbindd.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* Add 'net rpc group add'.
* Implement 'net groupmap set' and 'net groupmap cleanup'.
* Add 'net rpc group [add|del]mem' for domain groups and aliases.
- * Fix wb_delgrpmem (wbinfo -o)
- * As a DC we should not reply to lsalookupnames on DCNAME\\user
- * Fix sambaUserWorkstations on a Samba DC
+ * Fix wb_delgrpmem (wbinfo -o).
+ * As a DC we should not reply to lsalookupnames on DCNAME\\user.
+ * Fix sambaUserWorkstations on a Samba DC.
o Herb Lewis <herb@samba.org>
-
+ * Fix typo for tag in proto file.
+ * Add missing #ifdef HAVE_BICONV stuff.
+ * Truncate Samba's netbios name at the first '.' (not
+ right to left).
+
o Jianliang Lu <j.lu@tiesse.com>
- * Enforce the 'user must change password at nmext login' flag.
+ * Enforce the 'user must change password at next login' flag.
* Decode meaning of 'fields present' flags (improves support
- for usewrmgr.exe).
+ for usrmgr.exe).
o L. Lucius <ib@digicron.com>.
* Add versioning support to tdbsam.
* Update the IBM Directory Server schema with the OpenLDAP
file.
- * Various decoding fixes to improve usermgr.exe support.
+ * Various decoding fixes to improve usrmgr.exe support.
* Fix statfs redeclaration of statfs struct on ppc
* Implement support for password lockout of Samba domain
controllers and standalone servers.
+ * Get MungedDial attribute actually working with full TS
+ strings in it for pdb_ldap.
-o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+o Heinrich Mislik <Heinrich.Mislik@univie.ac.at>
+ o BUG 979 -- Fix quota display on AIX.
o James Peach <jpeach@sgi.com>
* Correct check for printf() format when using the SGI MIPSPro
compiler.
* BUG 1038: support backtrace for 'panic action' on IRIX.
+ * BUG 768: Accept profileing arg to IRIX init script.
+ * BUG 748: Relax arg parsing to sambalp script (IRIX).
+ * BUG 758: Fix pdma build.
o Tim Potter <tpot@samba.org>
* BUG 1098: rename internal msleep() function to fix build
problems on AIX.
* BUG 1112: Fix for writable printerdata problem in python bindings.
+ * BUG 1154: Remove reference to <sys/mman.h> in tdbdump.c.
+ * BUG 1155: enclose use of fchown() with guards.
o Simo Source <idra@samba.org>
o Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@samba.org>
* Add support to smbclient for multiple logins on the same
- session (based on work by abartlet).
+ session (based on work by abartlet@samba.org).
o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
* Fix ETA Calculation when resuming downloads in smbget.
+ * Add -O (for writing downloaded files to standard out)
+ based on patch by Bas van Sisseren <bas@dnd.utwente.nl>.
o TAKEDA yasuma <yasuma@miraclelinux.com>
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